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PALESTINE / STORIES
From GAZA : Women Bloggers Speaking to You
Monday 5 May 2008
by ResistingWomen.Net
"I started writing in 2000 when my parents’ home was demolished by the Israeli occupation army at the beginning of this intifada. I felt strongly that I should tell people abroad about my personal experience and about what’s happening in Gaza under (...) > continue
EGYPT / SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Celebration in Cairo to honor prominent women of the strike movement
Wednesday 30 April 2008
On March 28 the New Woman Foundation organized a celebration in Cairo to honor women who have been prominent in the strike movement, as social strikes and riots increase in Egypt. Women strike leaders from the tax collectors’ movement, Misr Spinning and Weaving, and the Hinawi Tobacco Company in (...) > continue
IRAN / STRATEGICAL ANALYSIS
The Campaign: A Unique but not an Exclusive Experience
Wednesday 9 April 2008
by Hoda Aminian, One Million Signature Campaign
The One Million Signatures Campaign is different from other movements and actions that have taken place previously in the arena of women’s rights in two ways:
1. Active participation of a large number of predominantly young volunteers in this movement, whereas in the past the discussion of (...) > continue
IRAN / CALL FOR SUPPORT
Khadijeh Moghaddam Member of Campaign and Mother’s Committee Arrested
Wednesday 9 April 2008
by One Million Signature Campaign
On the morning of April 8th, security police forcibly entered the home of Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and arrested her. Khadijeh Moghaddam who is a member of the Mother’s Committee of the Campaign was transferred to Eshrat Abad (...) > continue
IRAN / IMPORTANT SPEECH
Parvin Ardalan: Text of Speech Delivered at the Olaf Palme Foundation
Tuesday 8 April 2008
by One Million Signature Campaign, Parvin Ardalan
The following is the English Text of the speech of Parvin Ardalan, delivered via video during the ceremony where she was presented with the Olaf Palme Award. Parvin Ardalan was due to travel to Stockholm on March 3, but was banned from travel at the last minute. Her sister received the award in (...) > continue
NIGER / SLAVERY
Historic Slavery Case Launched against Niger (Press Release, 3 April 2008)
In a historic first, a former slave is bringing a case against the State of Niger before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice in Niamey on 7 April 2008, on the grounds that Niger has failed to implement laws against slavery.
Despite the (...) > continue
AZERBAIDJAN / CALL FOR SUPPORT
Olaf Palme Price ARZU ABDULLAYEVA joined the starvation action started by the imprisoned journalist EYNULLA FATULLAYEV
Monday 31 March 2008
by Helsinki Citizens’Assembly
Dear friends,
Public figures join the starvation action started by Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor in chief of the newspapers "Gundalik Azerbaijan" and "Realniy Azerbaijan" who was sentenced for 8 and half years of imprisonment for defamation.
Firstly, today on March 31, 2008, Arzu (...) > continue
ZIMBABWE / REPORT HIGHLIGHTS REPRESSION
The Effects of Fighting Repression With Love
Sunday 30 March 2008
by Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
This is the title of a report launched this month by the important civic movement "Women of Zimbabwe Arise", on the eve of Zimbabwean elections, which have occured yesterday, Saturday 29th November 2008. Elections’ results are being awaited before end of coming week, while President Mugabe is (...) > continue
BURMA / TRADE-UNION
Spotlight interview with Thwel Zin Toe and Khin San Htwe (Burmese Women’s Union)
Friday 28 March 2008
by ITUC CSI
« Exploitation, prostitution… they know the risks, but they can’t survive in Burma » The brutal crackdown by the Burmese military junta has forced millions of Burmese people to leave their country in a bid for survival. Exploited in Thailand’s clothing factories, imprisoned in China’s prostitution (...) > continue
FRANCE / BOOK
"Veil-Wearing Women Speak Out" : about an important book in France has just been published
Friday 28 March 2008
Mona: “The argument that the veil is a ‘symbol of oppression of women,’ begs the question for whom is it oppressive? Not for me. I am free to make my choices, and if I chose to wear a veil, it is an expression of my liberty.”
Nadjer: “I had only just arrived. When they saw me with my veil, they (...) > continue
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